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Just picked up a cab from this chap. He was thoroughly nice and works as a sound engineer so knows his technical stuff. Everything went smoothly, and he even did a little repair for me for no additional cost! In short, lovely bloke.

One is a gain control, the other is a volume control. As you turn up a gain control, you increasingly amplify the signal going through the circuit. With a volume control, when it's on maximum it's not doing anything to the signal, it's as you turn it down it's adds resistance and brings the signal down.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1424818990' post='2700940'] In pursuit of the ultimate quality clean tone, I tried all sorts of amps, but settled on a pre/power setup. It sounds fantastic, has miles of headroom and is very transparent. What pre and power amps do you have in mind? [/quote] It's not so much about having a clean tone that I'm interested in this route, it's more so about having something fairly neutral that doesn't add or detract from the tone already being generated by the preamp. I use the MXR M80 at the moment. Might upgrade to a sansamp at some point in future, but the M80 does the job well for now. Power amp, I'm open to suggestions. Are there any specifications that make a PA power amp good for bass usage, or will any power-amp that's good for PA be good for bass? (e.g. Crown, EV, etc.) Cab wise, I'm going to have to go for a normal 4x10 for now. Maybe I'll look to barefaced when the budget allows

Nowadays, I get my tone from an MXR M80 DI which is fine when running straight to a pa, however when I'm running through a normal bass amp I just set everything neutral and still get quite a bit of coloration. Sooooo, I'm considering getting a rackmount power amp and a fairly neutral cab, primarily for monitoring, but with enough power to do a gig without pa support if required. Has anyone got suggestions of a good way of going about this? I've got my eyes on a nice crown class-d amp which should do the job.

Any chance those of you commenting on this thread, could weigh in on my other one about venues? http://basschat.co.uk/topic/224894-music-venues/

Inadequate shielding on the pickups? Is it an active bass?

Any thoughts on the new Orange head coming out? https://www.orangeamps.com/products/bass-guitar-amp-heads/ob-1k-bass-amplifier/

[quote name='davedave' timestamp='1391276401' post='2355315'] Matamp GT200 and a Barefaced '69er. Gain and bass up full volume at 75%. So fat and round, yet still defined. It's made me fall in love with my Ricky 4003 again. [/quote] When I win the lottery, that's what I'm aiming for too!

I had the Terror Bass 500 and SP210. It was good, but I sold the Terror head on a few months later as it wasn't versatile or clean enough for me. I kept the cab for a couple of years until I sold it recently. It was very small and very lightweight but still loud enough for gigs. Although, you have to trade off sound quality and bass response to have something that small. If you NEED something small, then go for it. If you don't need something that small, get something else.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1390166474' post='2342280'] OK, does the encryption mean that you'll have issues if you swap basses and use two different transmitters with a single receiver? [/quote] No, you just need to make sure they use the same settings.

I've just finished mixing my band's debut E.P The tracks were recording by somebody else (who hasn't done the best job of it) so I could only do so much. We're going to be releasing this in a couple of weeks so I've got some time left so sort out any issues. If anybody has time I'd very much appreciate it if you could give the tracks a listen and give me some feedback or suggest some alterations. Please ignore the file names, they are silly working titles! https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu6oiawrw68v7jt/YaldiAlex_BETAVERSION.wav https://www.dropbox.com/s/c56utewqo04vahr/GoodbyeAlex_BETAVERSION.wav https://www.dropbox.com/s/trryjlad7bo8u0a/SoundsLikeAlex_BETAVERSION.wav https://www.dropbox.com/s/0o7dlm73dwcsamw/AlexisRacist_BETAVERSION.wav https://www.dropbox.com/s/qf6ty7357cwj85b/EmbraceAlex_BETAVERSION.wav

I've got a dbx 266XL. It does the job and doesn't say Behringer on it.

It can be done, but you'd need an adapter to allow you to connect both the internal amp as well as an external one at the same time. Something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/6-35mm-Mono-2-into-1-Splitter-Adaptor/dp/B005JKY43K

Ok, all the encryption will do is mean that when your transmitter is off, the receiver doesn't receive a signal from another unit. Only one signal can be transmitted down a channel at once. So if there's two transmitters on a channel (let's call the one you do want A, and the one you don't want B ), there's two 4 possibilities: Transmitter A is on and B is off. In this case the receiver will receive A Transmitter A is off and B is on. In this case the receiver won't receive anything because B doesn't have the correct key. Transmitter A is on and the signal is strong, B is on but weak. The receiver will receive the encryption key from A and thus start receiving, but the transmission will be impaired by B which is also transmitting on the same channel. As such, audio will come through, but will be broken and interfered with by B. Transmitter A is on and the signal is weak, and B is on and strong. The receiver will receive the signal from A, but as B is stronger it will dominate. As such the receiver won't 'hear' the correct encryption and as such will not give any audio, despite A transmitting with the correct key in the background.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1389470356' post='2334574'] The presence of an encryption key within the datastream transmission actually helps with RF hence reducing the chance of interference. There is a slight trade off in terms of latency, for example pro systems it adds an almost negligible 0.2ms but with other systems, maybe the AKG, it may be bigger. [/quote] If anything, encryption would make problems from interference worse. I don't understand how it could improve them. It'll stop eavesdropping, but not interference.

If I still lived in London I would!

Encryption has no effect on interference, so ignore that.

The first question is, how much are you willing to spend? If you like the sound of the Sansamp I would imagine an Ampeg head of some form would be best to give you a similiar sound. If you can afford it, an SVT-II or SVT-CL will always be best, but if you're looking for something cheaper then the SVT-350 or SVT-450 can be bought for a good price second hand. As for the cab, if you can afford it then a Barefaced 69'er would be right up your street I imagine. It's a clone of the original Ampeg SVT810 'fridge' cabinet. Although the Barefaced is louder, better, and a lot lighter! Price wise, it's fairly costly. A cheaper option would be picking up one of the smaller Barefaced cabinets, or alternatively, just a 4x10 or 6x10 from a decent brand. This looks like a fairly good deal: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/219318-price-drop-ampeg-svt-pro-3-head-usa-92-ampeg-b-410hlf-cab-for-sale-l550/

I use the MXR M80. Pretty much the same thing, I just went for this because it was a bit cheaper than the sansamp. http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/m80-bass-di I'm surprised to see so many top bassists using it rather than the sansamp. Check the list on the product page!

e609 I'd say.

I give up.

If you use an amp simulating DI that wouldn't be the case. It effectively will create a DI signal that sounds like an amp when run through the PA (or something like it). Look at the Sansamp Bass Driver, the MXR M80, or the Behringer BDI21. You plug into that, and it splits out an untouched feed to the amp as normal, but then does funky amp modelling stuff to the DI output. The Sansamp and MXR M80 are both top notch, and the Behringer is a rather good budget version.